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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are part of the first meal Rowe is able to order?
(a) Steak and french fries.
(b) Chicken and dumplings.
(c) Ham and steak.
(d) Chicken and ice cream.

2. Rowe decides again to try an escape and plans to go in what?
(a) A truck.
(b) A plane.
(c) A canal boat.
(d) A car.

3. How long is the camp moved?
(a) For days.
(b) For minutes.
(c) For weeks.
(d) For hours.

4. What does Rowe say that the guards refuse to accept?
(a) Adequate food was all that was necessary to keep the prisoners relatively healthy.
(b) Medicine was all that was necessary to keep the prisoners healthy.
(c) The men will not give in to the Vietcong's requests.
(d) The men are all willing to die for their country.

5. He says that the men aboard the chopper are kept busy during that initial ride, doing what?
(a) Talking to him.
(b) Answering his questions.
(c) Opening cans of c-rations for Rowe.
(d) Listening to him.

6. Is Rowe punished?
(a) No, not at all.
(b) Yes, severely.
(c) Yes, somewhat severely.
(d) Yes, but not severely.

7. Why are the men not allowed to buy food?
(a) The Vietcong are providing their food.
(b) There is no food to buy.
(c) They need other supplies more desperately.
(d) They catch enough fish that they do not need other food.

8. The prisoners - Jim, Dan, John and Rowe - are moved again on March 4, 1967, this time to where?
(a) A camp with better construction.
(b) Hanoi.
(c) A smaller camp.
(d) Saigon.

9. What do the men then do quickly?
(a) Hover over Rowe.
(b) Shoot at Rowe.
(c) Ignore Rowe.
(d) Load Rowe into the chopper.

10. What is Rowe's dog's name?
(a) Hop.
(b) Skip.
(c) Jump.
(d) Bounce.

11. Where is Rowe's mother?
(a) In the car.
(b) At church.
(c) With his father.
(d) Inside the house.

12. Rowe hastily comes up with a cover story, saying that he'd been trying to find better fishing grounds and that he'd set lines along the way. What is enough to plant doubt that Rowe is trying to escape?
(a) The presence of lines, though someone else's.
(b) The way in which he tells the story.
(c) His fluent Vietnamese.
(d) The lines he has in his hands.

13. Using their own slang, what does Rowe ask the men to do?
(a) Come back for him.
(b) Send a unit in to save him.
(c) Let his parents know that he is alive.
(d) Help him to escape.

14. What is Rowe told he can buy with the money he earns from his excess fish?
(a) Sugar and pepper.
(b) Sugar and tea.
(c) Sugar and salt.
(d) Garlic and pepper.

15. How does Rowe convince his captor to believe him?
(a) He tells him their leader is blundering into a mistake that will cost them their lives.
(b) He blackmails him.
(c) He bribes him.
(d) He tells him all the horrible things that have happened to him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do some of the guards do to the animals?

2. One older woman questions Rowe's captors. What does she ask?

3. Why is Rowe retrieved?

4. How does Rowe feel after eating this meal?

5. At first, what do these men plan to do to Rowe?

(see the answer keys)

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